Net::DNSServer - Perl Name Server
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. Description
2. Files
3. Availability
4. Bugs
5. Copyright
6. Credits
1. DESCRIPTION
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Net::DNSServer is a secure and extensible name server.
To read about the latest features, see the Changes file.
To find out about known bugs and to see what's planned
for future versions, see the BUGS and TODO files.
Any suggestions, ideas, patches, etc are welcome.
Let me know if you have questions or if you've found
some bugs. I'll implement what I feel is best, and
I'll be sure to give you credit.
WARNING:
Net::DNSServer is still in PreAlpha phase.
This module is still highly experimental.
It is not meant for production use yet.
2. FILES
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demo
- Demonstration scripts directory
- See demo/README
conf/named.conf
- Copied from default caching-nameserver-7.0-6
- (May be removed in future versions.)
conf/named.root
- ftp://ftp.rs.internic.net/domain/named.root
lib/Net/DNSServer.pm
- Main name server engine
lib/Net/DNSServer/ConfParser.pm
- Only subroutines for reading conf files.
- (May be removed in future versions.)
lib/Net/DNSServer/*
- Various resolver modules
3. AVAILABILITY
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You can get the latest version of Net::DNSServer
from CPAN or from the dnsserver homepage:
http://www.cpan.org./modules/by-module/Net/
http://freeware.roobik.com/dnsserver/
See the INSTALL document for installation
instructions.
4. BUGS
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Net::DNSServer is still in PreAlpha phase.
See the BUGS file for more information.
5. COPYRIGHT
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Copyright (c) 2002 Rob Brown. All rights reserved.
Net::DNSServer is free software; you can redistribute
it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
6. CREDITS
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Rob Brown
- http://freeware.roobik.com/dnsserver/
- I wrote it
Paul Seamons
- http://seamons.com/
- Net::Server made this project much easier.
Michael Fuhr
- http://www.dimensional.com/~mfuhr/
- Very large contributor (wrote Net::DNS)
- Inspiration from his TODO motivated me:
"Consider writing a simple nameserver with Net::DNS."
Sam Tregar
- http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SA/SAMTREGAR/
- IPC::SharedCache is perfect for holding the
DNS information with a TTL validate_hook for
Net::Server::PreFork servers.
- It is the guts of my SharedCache resolver.
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$Id: README,v 1.7 2002/04/29 02:54:15 rob Exp $